Diaz enters the campaign with Podemos candidates in Madrid and calls for mobilization to “defeat the right”
Despite Yolanda Diaz’s complex balancing act in this campaign, the second vice president of government fully entered the race this Wednesday, lending support to Podemos candidates in the Community of Madrid, where the party is fighting to reach the 5% needed to achieve entry into the Regional Assembly and the Metropolitan City Council. Greeted by shouts of “boss, boss”, among hugs and applause from some 200 supporters and neighbours, the Sumar leader called for a rally of “progressive” people to “defeat the right” in Spain.
Together with Jesus Santos, the municipal candidate for Gannar Alcorcon, deputy mayor and regional coordinator of Podemos, the vice-president was full of praise for her model of “useful politics”. Let’s take this election campaign seriously. Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s project has also settled in Alcorcón. PP who only thinks of noise as a government choice. Diaz said he has only one electoral platform, which is to defeat the government of Spain. The vice president made harsh accusations against the conservatives, accusing them of the lack of proposals to solve the housing problem in Spain, after he again asked to suspend the revaluation of mortgage payments and reduce them by one point to alleviate the situation of four million families. . “I would like to know what PP is proposing in the face of this real problem. The only thing we see is PP has two names. One is Feijóo and the other is Ayuso, what they are doing is arguing among themselves to see who repeals more government laws,” he said. “The key is in the citizens, mobilize and enable us to defeat the right,” Diaz reiterated.
The head of work also announced that the government plans to approve on Thursday in the Extraordinary Council of Ministers a change in the Occupational Risk Prevention Regulation to prohibit the performance of occupational activities abroad when the state meteorological agency (Aemet) indicates that we are on red or orange alert.
Podemos candidate for DC City Council, Roberto Sotomayor, and community presidency candidate, Alejandra Jacinto, joined the city walk. She and Santos, along with the Vice President, made impromptu remarks around a bank to briefly address the residents, who chanted “Unity, Unity,” calling on them to let the tensions surrounding the joint venture out in the face of the general election.
The tour, which lasted about an hour, included a brief meeting with workers from the Alcorcón Municipal Services Company (ESMASA). Jacinto and Sotomayor both confirmed their attendance at the event on Tuesday.
Diaz is not expected to participate in any campaign rally with the candidate of Mas Madrid, Monica García, with whom the head of the Labor Party maintains an excellent relationship and with whom she suggested that she vote in 28-M. In addition to supporting the candidatures of Izquierda Unida and Podemos, the leader of Sumar has sought to make gestures with other parties that aspire to incorporate them into their platform. Some balances that Tashkeel Ionian Pilara, Secretary General of Podemos, who did not want to omit any criticism of the agenda in public, did not like.
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